A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-956 advisory.

    A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

    A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. Affected is the     function bfd_elf_reloc_symbol_deleted_p of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation     leads to memory corruption. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is     rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and     may be used. The patch is identified as b425859021d17adf62f06fb904797cf8642986ad. It is recommended to     apply a patch to fix this issue. (CVE-2025-1182)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7423-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to cause a crash, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-1153,     CVE-2025-1182)

    It was discovered that ld in GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2025-1176)

    It was discovered that ld in GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to cause a crash, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 24.10. (CVE-2025-1178, CVE-2025-1181)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack may be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of binutils / gdb installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1176 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack May be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of binutils / gdb installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2025-1176 advisory.

  - A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function
    _bfd_elf_gc_mark_rsec of the file elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to heap-based     buffer overflow. The attack May be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The     exploitation is known to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and May be used. The     patch is named f9978defb6fab0bd8583942d97c112b0932ac814. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this     issue. (CVE-2025-1176)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
234951	Amazon Linux 2023 : binutils, binutils-devel, binutils-gprofng (ALAS2023-2025-956)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	low
233981	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : GNU binutils vulnerabilities (USN-7423-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
232088	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-1176	Nessus	Misc.	low
216785	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: binutils / gdb (CVE-2025-1176)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	low
216365	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: binutils / gdb (CVE-2025-1176)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	low

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